the bee's knees

I cannot get over how chill office culture is here. Case in point: I got back from lunch yesterday only to find my coworkers on our little balcony, hovering over a plate. On it was sliced squid, which they doused with alcohol and then lit on fire to cook.

It was delicious. And it reminded me of this dried squid dish that my grandma used to make.

Anyway, the discussion somehow led to the topic of slang terms, which led to Brent and me teaching them phrases like, "Holy crap!" (we kept it pretty PG for the first day), which led to us discovering Slang: The Authoritative Topic-by-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from All Walks of Life. It was pretty up-to-date, though some were definitely passe while others really need a comeback (especially "gritch," which means to gripe and bitch).

Conspicuously absent from the book, though, was both "That's what she said" and "Your mom." Brent and I figured we should probably teach those phrases to the office on a later day.